Mike Austin's Blog

Sunday, January 02, 2011

24 Hours on Craigslist

24 Hours on Craigslist

ASUS G73SW

Clamcase iPad keyboard case

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Automatically releasing retained @property values

Automatically releasing retained @property values

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Alesis Compressor/limiter

I got tired of continuously changing the volume in movies I watch - from quiet whispers to huge explosions and gunfire, so I tried using a compressor/limiter usually used for recording. The Alesis 3630 is relatively inexpensive, and is easy to set up. It also has blinking lights, and I like blinking lights :) I've watched a few action movies so far, and it works great. It's transparent in that you don't notice that it's working.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Mag+: a beautiful concept digital magazine reader

Mag+: a beautiful concept digital magazine reader

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Loading local web resources on iPhone

I wanted to learn how to load web resources locally, so I finally found how:
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: "test.html" ofType: @""];
[self.webView loadRequest: [NSURLRequest requestWithURL: [NSURL fileURLWithPath: path]]];
Objective-C is pretty convoluted sometimes!
Also, you have to make your javascript resources non-executable

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Stevie play the drums

Monday, November 23, 2009

QWERTY makes a comeback on Dvorak

Link

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